KPBS Events

Rhythmic Ancestries: Film Screening With Jose E. Abad

Monday, November 1, 2021 at 2 PM

Free

Jose Esteban Abad is a multidisciplinary choreographer, DJ, and curator based in unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory (San Francisco, CA). Born in Olongapo City, Philippines to a Filipina Mother and an Afro-Carribean U.S. Navy Sailor, their work explores the complexities of cultural identity at the crossroads of gender, sexuality, class, and race. Rooted in collaboration and improvisation as tools of resistance and liberation, Abad’s work centers QTBIPOC experimental collective process-based practices of becoming and re-membering. They highlight the most intelligent technologies that exist in this world - our bodies, ancestral wisdom, and nature.    Abad will present three short films followed by conversation: CANT questions the disparities between rhythmic and ancestral lineages to develop a new shared language.  In exalted from being said too much, viewers witness the crumbling of old structures around us in a meditation and prayer; finding hope in the idea that if we could keep ourselves and each other alive, we would see our world blossom in the wake of global tragedy. To become other than dust explores how we can see beyond what separates us, and honor what connects us. This work engages in collective rituals, excavations of personal mythologies, inherited legacies of resilience and grief, and reckons with the convening of all of our ancestors through our individual bodies. Date | Monday, November 1 from 2pm. to 3:30 p.m. Location | Virtual webinar Reserve your spot here for free! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional Donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation This event is brought by California State University San Marcos and co-sponsored the department of Dance Studies. For more information, please contact the CSUSM Arts & Lectures at gjones@csusm.edu.